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[yourbankruptcy]

kpf, That would help to keep Prescotts thermals within reasonable envelope

This one is rumoured to be particularly crappy. That's the faulty hot B0 stepping. Intel tested the water by releasing information that the thermal envelope will be as high as 103W. The internet community started to laugh at them and thus Intel scrapped plans to release it as real Prescott and rushed the next stepping, C0. I think with disabled HT and 533 bus it will run reasonably cool, but expect, once it's here, to see the "avoid" word on review sites. It will be much worse than Northwood on same frequency.

I wonder what was the reason to release it at all? Just to support existing 533 mobos? Or because Prescott can't cover the 2.8 Ghz segment?

[Elmer Phud]

kpf -

p.s: Aha. Shortages of entry level P4-CPUs. Hmm. Well, i think, i mean, you know - theoretically, if Intel would look for an explanation why it will be using Prescott-Dies for this segment as well... ;-)

Has it occurred to you that the entry level has moved up? Maybe they just don't get any that slow anymore?